Natus Vincere have been crowned DreamHack Winter 2010 champions following their victory over mTw.

The Grand Final commenced on de_inferno, witnessing a mixed start with both teams collecting rounds one after each other. However, it would be the Ukrainians who gained some ground in order to post a half-time lead of 9-6 as CT.

As second half began, Natus Vincere stepped up their game and were able to close down the first map after scoring seven consecutive rounds, producing the score 16-6.

Moving on to de_train, mTw started out the brightest and managed to keep Na´Vi under control during the five first rounds as CT, but the WCG 2010 winners counterattacked and tied them up at 7-7, concludingly 8-7 in favor of Na´Vi.

Following the side switch, it was now when Natus Vincere made things count, as they claimed a total of eight rounds, to mTw's four, leaving them the winners of DreamHack Winter 2010.

You definitely can't compare the sucess of a SK team that had only one true opponent at the time (Team9) and Na'Vi that must fight each tournament against extremely strong sides such as fnatic, mTw, FX, WMF, SK, EG, coL etc... The overall level of the game is not the same and the level of difficulty to achieve these performances is absolutely incomparable. It's just like Real Madrid winning 5 European Cups in a row in the late 50's with Di Steffano : it was possible at the time because the level of competition wasn't the same, it's impossible now. Except that Na'Vi made it this year.

Still, I consider that the best team to ever grace the CS scene and the most successful is the 2006-2009 fnatic because it placed top3 of virtually every tournament it competed in for four years straight (like 80 or 85%) and THIS is something incredible too.

yea, u said right
about fnatic i agree with u too. it's like NEO best player of the decade, but no one the best atm. every single tournament we can saw different unreal moments and players. one time starix > get_right, second - SIXER > markeloff etc.

DH was absolutely esenin's best tournament, he was insane calling, backing up their teammates, killing, wow, i hate that players as dumb as GTR get so much attention when no one can see what esenin does for Na´Vi.

Man, you have zero clue when it comes to cs if you manage to call GTR a dumb player... His technique is just amazing >_< Both cen9 and gtr are great, they're just acting their role in the team and it's only natural that a mad fragger like gtr gets more attention than a bat boy like cen9

Okey, if you say so. I am just saying what I have heard, just rumors. As I said "as far as I know", and I don't know that mutch. I only watch sk-gaming's matches. But if you say so I quess you are right.

delpan is better than markeloff no doubt... simply better... he is too good to ignore... recently in china when sk beat navi on train with delpan... it was their strongest performance for like five years... delpan is mega...

From what I've seen lately I think the following teams will be stronger with the following exchanges... Just an opinion:

mTw: minet, trace, arcadion, zonic, karrigan (Reason: ave is a really good player and under rated but since arcadion basically took most of his role, a strong fragger like karrigan can really help)

SK: Same except exchanging walle with a player like Delpan (Reason: walle is decent but for the role of awper it would be better if someone more consistent joined, since the role of caller has been changed to Robban)

fnatic: Same but they could use a more consistent awper,(Reason: generally they've been making forest awp when DSN has a bad day, which has become more often than usual)

Just imo, fnatic's main weakness is team play. They have been relying too much on aim, just as they did in 2009. This can't work anymore as most teams already discovered their habit..most notably Gux. Most people are saying Gux has been poor lately. This is wrong. :P Most teams know how aggressive Gux can be and they know how to make him less effective.

mTw is far more consistent because they have, imo, the best teamplay out of all. Their flashes/counter flashes are perfectly timed, smooth rotations, etc. Basically almost everything if not everything they do is a collective effort. They work as a unit.

Na`vi on the other hand has the best of both worlds. Obviously their team play isn't as great as mTw yet, but they have individual players that can make up for it.

well it's true that fnatic have really powerful individual players, but you're right about mTw. In the match between them I noticed how effective mTw are in countering fnatic pushes, like where arcadion and zonic both flashed a banana rush and arcadion jumped down and they killed all 5 without losing a single person.

In the match mTw vs Na'vi, mTw did quite well in tactics but Na'vi did quite well in counting those tactics which led them to out aiming them.

Imo Neo is getting worse every year and he is not as good as he was but still he's famous somehow. Pasha and Taz are doing great lately. Kuben, Loord and Neo unfortunately aren't madfraggers and so. Na'Vi was better and that's all. About Lions... dunno I think that they were/are pissed cause losing to Na'Vi and they felt disappointed. They always plays bad when it comes to fight for 3rd place. Mentality.

I have seen WEM, the tournament before it (forgot what that was, lol) and now DH. So 3 tournaments and all I have seen was Neo in not his best shape that's why I wrote what I wrote sometimes he makes the big difference but it's like one match out of five... Ofc I'm still huge fan of 'em...

I guess you haven't seen previous 4 tournaments. Neo WAS madfragger there. I mean he was the best fragger or 2nd from fx in all 4 tournaments. However, I agree that he isn't getting any better in contrary to Pasha. But it was just one tournaments here where he played bad

After winning this major tournament they're going for a trip,holidays for couple of months.
Probably they won't be in proper shape after such a long break.
Might be a better chance for others to prepare.....
I hope something strange is going to happen in next year!

maybe with a top player like urself jack, people will start looking at navi in a different way.. i always said navi are the best team of 2010, people kept saying fnatic were, now i say, navi are the best team ever, like u do, cause no one could measure this kind of skill, tacs etc so far.. maybe if the pros recognize them as CS legends, the community will follow, cause they sure deserve it..

ye,they really need to be recognized as legends or they wont sleep llo0l0ol0o0l they couldnt care less about it,they just play and sometimes they win others they lose,maybe now they are winning more than they lose but why would the community follow them?jeez what a soap opera

Well they live together and what i´ve heard from interviews they practise about 10-12 hours per day. Plus they actually made tactics on papers not ingame. Had sceams for tactics...lol.
Nerdiness finally paying off for them xD

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Definitely well deserved, they played a much better match than mTw did. Oh well, I really hoped for mTw that they would win the whole event, but once again NaVi showed that they are by far the best team in the world. Congrats!

Yes, Na´vi is the best team that has ever existed. Rest can´t play CS, quit now. God made hands for markeloff, starix espescially for Counter-Strike. Markeloff is so great, i want to have sex with him. They are the best of the best of ever exsisted best, underestand!?!?!

as a team performance, NaVi have arguebly showen us cs at its finest, throw times and I admire that. no one thought fnatic record could be beaten but navi. these hungry ukraniens are true inspirational to all eSport fans. congratuzaltions for your succesful year and thank you! and I also want to congrat mtw for their 2nd place and for still fighing no matter what. I dont care if this was the fifth time they failed to take on navi. the ukranies aim are just superior right now and I found only zet, the motherfucker to level up with navi's aim today. Atleast when he was on top in 2006 ofc. peace out

Pretty proud for them..Just a good example for anyone that impossible is nothing in any field if you hard working & have an aim to achieve/
Also want to send a huge respect for danish boys - you deserved to play in the final. And if's not Na'Vi i hope you'll take the 1 place in the next championship intelligent calm guys from mTw!)
And again congrats Na'Vi, a team from Ukraine.

That's why I said they're on their way :D and nowadays, prize money for single events are much less than years before. That means you have to win more events at almost the same (or event higher) competitive level

was the best team that won - tho they didnt act the best.. IMO there should be some rule that u cant harrash the opponent like there is in online matches.. Standing up and showing 2 fuck fingers when u win a round is just unsportmanship..

to replace dsn? :D:D:D
haha nice joke :)
they all are perfect players, and dsn plays his solid game almost every game.
Their problem is Tactics, because they just play so low tactics based game compared to na vi, mTw, FX.
They should definetely work on it..
they cant just play half way aim based and half way tactic based game...
in 2009 they played different style, rushing around and giving some shots..now they are walking and walking

I have a mistake; fnatic won 16-14 in a groupstage match. So it actually makes 10-10 in maps. But don´t worry i´m not trying to say fnatic is better or anything. Na´vi is the best team of 2010, period :) I´m still glad that the best team of 2009 was the only team who has a good record against na´vi.

and why u even count their meeting results? Who cares them if NaVi win most of big tournaments of year and fnatic doesnt. NaVi is team of year and best team of all times when it comes to skill level. End of discussion.

Or do u think that old eoL or SK.swe2003 could have dominated like that if NaVi was around back then? Just watch some old demos where they play and u see how lowskilled they are compared to nowadays teams and their opponents were even more terrible to compared nowadays teams.

CS skill level get higher and higher year by year and in 2010 it is @ highest point so far and NaVi dominated. They simple are the best (and with that i mean SKILL LEVEL, not dominating time) team of all time.

And its also funny that some people think that fnatic had became bad and isnt what they used to be. Those people simple dont realize that clear fact that other teams are getting better and better

"and why u even count their meeting results? Who cares them if NaVi win most of big tournaments of year and fnatic doesnt. NaVi is team of year and best team of all times when it comes to skill level. End of discussion."

I don´t care. I was just stating the facts. I know it doesn´t matter. As i said in my previous post, na´vi is the best team of 2010. Why did you even reply me? That´s what i said ?...

"Or do u think that old eoL or SK.swe2003 could have dominated like that if NaVi was around back then? Just watch some old demos where they play and u see how lowskilled they are compared to nowadays teams and their opponents were even more terrible to compared nowadays teams. "

No i don´t think eol or SK.Swe had a chance against Na´vi, in fact i think if na´vi would play really serious every round - sk.swe or eol would lose 2-0 ( 16-0 each map ).

"And its also funny that some people think that fnatic had became bad and isnt what they used to be. Those people simple dont realize that clear fact that other teams are getting better and better"

If you think this is funny then i´m afraid you have a really bad sense of humour. I´m aware of the fact that the teams are getting better and better every year, but you can´t also deny the fact that fnatic has been playing bad.